"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19065″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 13, 1982 – CBS Radio Hourly news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] This January 13th in 1982 was probably not all that far removed from most January 13th’s on the Eastern half of…
Hurula – in session at Sveriges Radio P3 – October 20, 2020 – Sveriges Radio, Stockholm – Over to Sweden tonight for a session by Hurula, recorded live by Sveriges Radio in Stockolm. With a background in the punk scene,…
Historic concerts again this week with legends Karl Bohm, guest Conducting the New York Philharmonic and Maurizio Pollini, piano, in music of Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms during the 1978 special Pension Fund concert and the first broadcast of the 1978-1979…
January 12, 1942 – Radio Tokyo English Service – News broadcasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1942 – News from Radio Tokyo. Chances are, if you were around and at home during the war years you may…
This day in 1978 saw President Jimmy Carter give his first Press Conference of 1978. And by the looks and sounds of it, the political year would have enough drama to go around. Taking center stage was the crisis in…
Emel (Mathlouthi) in session for Club Side – Radio France International – December 30, 2020 – RFI, Paris – A short, but profound set from Tunisian/French singer/songwriter Emel, whose full name is Emel Mathlouthi. She is is best known for…
Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and…
I originally ran this post a few years via my old website, but many readers weren’t happy with the sound quality available at the time. So, as promised, I am running it again with new and improved sound and a…
Over to The Cameo Room in New York City this week for a session with The Bobby Troup Trio with Julie London on vocals. Bobby Troup’s earliest musical success came in 1941 with the song “Daddy” written for a Mask…
Back to some basic, no-frills American Rock n’ Roll this weekend. In 1977, Mushroom Records ran a full-page advertisement showing the bare-shouldered Wilson sisters (as on the Dreamboat Annie album cover) with the suggestive caption, “It was only our first…